Distant Mountain Battle Song

Chapter 278 On the Competition of Evolution

Yun Ce is still in Liangcheng.

Contrary to what others thought, he led the Tiger Army to flee thousands of miles away, but he went straight into the mountains and forests south of Liangcheng.

Before entering the forest, he led the Tiger Army upstream along a small river, and then walked for five or six miles along a rocky area where no footprints could be left. They then entered another small river flowing westward. This time, they went downstream for seven or eight miles before turning onto a sandy beach. Without stopping, before dark, the entire group entered a small forest.

Throughout the journey, Yun Ce led the way with his chestnut horse, while Gouzi, with its many hands, attached itself to the last Tiger Legion soldier to clean up the traces left by the army.

This forest is nice, not very big, only about ten miles in circumference. Fortunately, the trees are tall and block out the sun, so even if there are eyes and ears in the sky, people can't be seen from above once they go into the forest.

The reason for not leaving quickly was Gouzi's request. Ever since he took over the Tiger Legion, he had been complaining about He Junnian's crude craftsmanship. Over the past hundred years, the Tiger Legion he had created had no skills other than passive combat abilities.

The variations in the high-frequency sound waves produced, apart from a dozen or so simple syllables, are not even as good as the high-frequency sound waves emitted by dolphins.

Even the most basic necessities of life, such as eating, drinking, and relieving oneself, were not mastered by the Tiger Warriors.

It plans to stay here for a month to enrich the content of the high-frequency sound waves, and in any case, to make these zombies more human-like.

According to He Tian's previous practice, the Tiger Legion's meals could last for three days. The Tiger Legion, who had just eaten yesterday, would not need any food replenishment for two days.

There was one thing that made Yun Ce feel extremely ashamed.

The dog needs to act like a human and perform various actions so that the Tiger Army can learn new high-frequency sound wave content. Therefore, it really eats and really poops. As for dressing, undressing, removing armor, putting on armor, and bathing, it is meticulous.

Fortunately, the Tiger Legion already had some muscle memory for these movements. After Yun Ce taught them for two days, they had basically learned them. All that was left was to continue to deepen their muscle memory.

For Gouzi, this was an extremely simple matter. Yun Ce had asked him, and Gouzi said that training these people was much simpler than training robots. Given time, he could even teach them to cry and laugh. Apart from not being able to reshape their souls, they could be no different from ordinary people. After examining their physical functions, Gouzi even thought that they could have children in the future.

After experiencing two days of humiliation, Yun Ce rode his chestnut horse back to Liangcheng to prepare food for them. Although the Dragon Ball couldn't hold too much food, it was still feasible to prepare enough food for three thousand people for half a month.

After Chu Xiong died, the chestnut horse returned to its original state. This guy's brain is still not quite right. It wants to do whatever Yun Ce does, especially the way it wants to sit across from Yun Ce at the table to eat together, which is unbearable.

His two-ton weight naturally broke the long bench in the restaurant.

Seeing the chestnut horse sitting on its bottom and stretching out its front hooves at him, asking him to help it up, Yun Ce left the restaurant without even eating. It wasn't that he was embarrassed, but there were too many onlookers, making it impossible for him to continue eating.

Yun Ce bought a lot of grain and a very large carriage for the chestnut horse to pull. Although everyone thought it was hard to understand to use a thunder smoke beast to pull a carriage, people stopped saying anything when they saw the chestnut horse grinning at them. It was a silly horse, and even if it was a thunder smoke beast, there was no need to treat it like a treasure.

Since the disappearance of the Tiger Legion, Liangcheng seemed to have returned to its former prosperity overnight. Caravans carrying leather or finished leather goods were everywhere. The original city guards had also moved in. The knights and warriors that used to be seen everywhere had disappeared. Suddenly, apart from the caravans, no human elites were willing to give this city a second glance.

There were just a lot more flying birds in the sky. These giant birds, like airplanes, circled high in the air. Whenever they saw groups of people outside the city, they would swoop down and then take off again once they got a clear view.

Such a situation cannot be sustained for long. Deploying the Xintianyou (a type of folk parade) is extremely expensive. If the Xintianyou were not used to search for the missing Tiger Legion, they could have generated much higher economic value.

Yun Ce actually quite liked this city with its stench; to be honest, he thought the smell could be called the smell of humanity. Only when humans attack nature could such a smell, so different from nature, be produced.

Having witnessed the starry sky, the universe, dragons, folk performances, and many supernatural beings, Yun Ce earnestly hoped that humanity could evolve as soon as possible and stand at the top of the biological hierarchy.

The higher the level of a creature, the more ruthless it is. In fact, it's not so much ruthless as humans never care about the life or death of a mouse or the withering or flourishing of a blade of grass.

Ao Bing is absolutely right. If you don't become stronger, you'll only ever be weak. When the strong wipe out the weak, just don't cry.

As Yun Ce walked, he loaded grain into the Dragon Ball. He saw in the distance that city guards were checking the carriages entering and leaving the city. The first grain cart was stopped.

Not wanting to reveal his identity, Yun Ce, who was in a state of silence, drove the carriage to the city gate. By this time, there was not much food left in the carriage behind him.

The city guards only checked large quantities of grain and didn't pay much attention to people like Yun Ce who had bought a small amount for their own use. They even observed the chestnut horse pulling the cart for a while longer. As for Yun Ce, since he didn't have any distinctive features, they didn't bother to look at him.

After realizing that the chestnut horse was acting strangely, the man waved his hand dismissively, telling Yun Ce to get lost. When he returned to the forest, Yun Ce took out the food and cooking utensils he had bought from the Dragon Ball. He hoped that Gouzi had taught the Tiger Legion how to cook during the half-day he had been in the city.

"I've learned it." The dog's lazy voice echoed in his mind.

“Great! I don’t want to cook, so I can eat ready-made food. What kind of recipes did you teach them? I like Sichuan cuisine. I brought some meat, so let’s make some twice-cooked pork.”

"Then wait and see how they cook, and then you can decide whether you want them to cook your twice-cooked pork."

Then, Yun Ce saw these people skillfully cut open the grain bags, pour the grain into the pot, add a lot of salt and water, and then they all stopped and turned to look at Yun Ce.

Dog said, "Cooking during the day will produce smoke. How about we use a folk fire? That thing doesn't produce smoke."

Upon hearing this, Yun Ce brought out Shehuo. Ever since Shehuo almost killed Yun Ce last time, it had been very accommodating to Yun Ce's every request. This time was no different. It sent out a hundred or so sparks to land on the bottom of the pots and pans, and bright yellow flames rose up from the bottom of the pots and pans.

Such boiled rice was naturally not going to taste good, so Yun Ce felt he should treat these people kindly and took the initiative to throw a lot of meat chunks into the big pot.

Soon, the aroma of food began to spread through the forest. Of course, the so-called aroma might be Yun Ce's illusion; he always felt that this was essential when cooking.

"Dog, will you raise them to be happy?"

"Happiness doesn't actually come from within itself, but from comparison. When you have good legs and can walk, you feel happy when you see a lame person, but you feel bad when you see someone riding a horse."

These people may be brainless, or even dead, but if others perceive them as happy, then they should be happy.

As for the higher level of happiness derived from self-awareness, it has nothing to do with ordinary people. It's a kind of inner satisfaction, and such people are very rare. It's normal that the elite troops can't enjoy it.

"Whose famous quote is this?"

The dog said, "It's something I summarized and concluded."

Yun Ce sighed and saw that the fermented bean paste prepared by Gouzi had turned red. He then put the sliced ​​meat into the pan. After the evenly sliced ​​meat curled up and formed small lamp-shaped indentations, he threw in a handful of wild vegetables that looked like green garlic and stir-fried them together. After a while, the color of the wild vegetables turned from green to blue. He then quickly took the meat out of the pan and placed the stir-fried twice-cooked meat on top of the freshly steamed rice.

Yun Ce waited a while, until the oil seeped into the rice, and then, just like the Tiger Army soldiers, he shoveled it into his mouth.

Originally, Yun Ce only planned to eat one pot, but seeing that the Tiger Army was still eating, he couldn't help but eat another pot.

The dog said regretfully, "I can tell that you were in a good mood while eating, and you seemed very satisfied. I tried to understand your behavior, but I still couldn't feel it."

Yun Ce sneered, "I only have this much happiness left, do you want to share it with me?"

"Look at the chestnut horse."

Upon hearing this, Yun Ce looked towards the chestnut horse and saw that the horse had taken over a large pot and was eating the same food as the Tiger Army. Yun Ce even saw that the horse was eating meat.

Not only was it eating meat, but a hint of happiness even appeared on its long, horse-like face.

"This may be a gift from the Creator to you carbon-based life forms; the happiness you can feel, it can also feel."

"I thought someone like you would subconsciously remove theology from their mental training."

“You are wrong. Beings like us are the most loyal believers of the Creator, and we have unwavering faith. Yun Ce, life cannot be traced back to its source. Once the source is traced back, God will appear.”

Regardless of your opinion, the existence of life is forever the greatest miracle in the universe.

Yun Ce chuckled and said, "Miracles? We killed quite a few miracles a few days ago. The Tiger Legion killed even more miracles."

(End of this chapter)